On the making of Americans : essays in honor of David Riesman / edited by Herbert J. Gans [and others].

Other author Riesman, David, 1909-2002.
Other author Gans, Herbert J.
Format Book
Publication Info[Philadelphia] : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979.
Descriptionxiii, 350 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents What is American about America?: Featherstone, J. John Dewey and David Riesman, from the lost individual to the lonely crowd. Gusfield, J. R. The sociological reality of America. Jencks, C. The social basis of unselfishness. Meyersohn, R. Abundance reconsidered. Sennett, R. What Tocqueville feared. Glazer, N. Individualism and equality in the United States. Cottle, T. J. An unemployed family. Kato, H. Development nineteenth-century style.--American institutions and subcultures-still changing: Gans, H. J. Symbolic ethnicity. Weiss, R. S. A new marital form. Berger, B. M. American pastorialism, suburbia and the commune movement. Denney, R. Feast of strangers. Trow, M. Aspects of diversity in American higher education. Grant, G. Journalism and social science.
Bibliography noteBibliography: p. 319-346.
LCCN 78065118
ISBN0812277546

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